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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Trade liberalization and informal sector

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Abstract of a working paper by Arias et al (2013) , who argue that the entry costs to informal employment is significantly lower and that tr...
Saturday, December 7, 2013

The Bali Package: Benefits worth $400 billion to $1 trillion over the years

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At the Ninth Session of the Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Bali, the 159 member countries agreed to a deal (the Bali Package ) whose ...
Friday, November 29, 2013

Reimagining Nepal!

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The following paragraphs are pertinent to the Nepalese context. All are related to a recent book titled " Reimagining India: Unlocking...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

NEPAL: Major economic issues for Constituent Assembly II

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The Constituent Assembly (CA) II election is almost over with the final tallying of 240 winners in the directly elected (first past the po...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Changing understanding of poverty, progress and revised goals

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Kaushik Basu explains : Early in 2013, the World Bank Group adopted two overarching goals to guide its work and in April 2013 these w...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

High (financial) cost of migration

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Here is a revealing piece on the global supply chains and how Nepalese migrant workers are related to it. The piece also tracks the ...
Monday, November 11, 2013

Structural Change in Vietnam

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Brian McCaig and Nina Pavcnik explore the structural change in Vietnam and argue that "changes in trade policy, expansion of employme...